A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro
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A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people’s citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.
Political parties represented in Rio de Janeiro's City Council, 1947-64Ch. 1 The city of hills and swamps 19Ch. 2 Rio and Brazil's postwar republic 50Ch. 3 Vargas and the Voz do Povo 91Ch. 4 Word into law : work and family in Vargas-era legislation 116Ch. 5 The poor in classical criminal law 153Ch. 6 Positivist criminology and paper poverty 186Ch. 7 Informality in law and custom 219Ch. 8 The land wars of Rio de Janeiro 253Epilogue Poverty and citizenship 305Statistical appendixes 319Notes 331Bibliography 415Index 447
